Here's how much a 'Made in the USA' iPhone would cost

[jmowreader]

7. I'm going to disagree with thin analysis

A US-made iPhone would be built using robots. There would be one to put the parts on the circuit board and set the boards on a wave soldering machine conveyor, another to pick the soldered boards off the conveyor, one to put the phones together, one to package the phones, one to put the packages in shipping cartons, one to palletize the cartons, one to load the pallets on trailers, and one to bring the parts to the first station and one to handle the trailers. A 24/7 phone making factory could run with no more than six human workers - four to run shifts on the production floor, a logistics clerk and a supervisor.

This would make the phones a little more expensive than Asian-made ones but not by much.